Most of the money given to MERCY Worldwide goes to salaries and not benevolence, we already know from former ICC evangelist Gabe Reed’s
letter (which I covered in my previous article) that 81% to 90% of the money
allocated to MERCY goes to paying their leader’s salaries and NOT to the “MERCY
projects” which are supposed to be purpose of the organization. If they are
pocketing 81% of the money for themselves; you can hardly call this a “benevolent
organization”. Now out of the rest of their budget how much actually went to
MERCY benevolent projects? Only about 3% in 2014 and a meager 0.5% in 2015.
In order to exempt themselves from paying income tax the ICC
was required to fill out a 990 form where their total budget and expenditures for
MERCY are listed. This is public information that is available on the internet.
And here is the link to the 2015 MERCY 990 income form:
On the 2014 Mercy Worldwide 990-EZ form; their total income
was $137,541.
$100,151 of this money went to benefits and salaries.
The only expenses made toward benevolent Mercy events was
$500 for the toy drive, $200 for the blood drive, and then $3500 on project
supplies for the “Day of Mercy”; amounting to only a total of $4200 spent
toward benevolent projects.
The way the rest of the money was used is recorded as “other
expenses” such as expenditures for meals and entertainment, printing and
publications, travel, and most notably $12,000 just for “advertising” (which is
almost 3x what they spent on the MERCY projects themselves).
The 2015 Mercy Worldwide expenditures were even more
alarming; out of their total income of $146,377, only a meager $700 was actually
spent on Mercy projects ($200 for “Day of Mercy” and $500 for the toy drive)
while $131,124 for their own paid benefits and salaries. $18,000 was put under “other
expenditures” which included meals and entertainment, admin and travel.
What is really outrageous here, is that even though they had
a budget increase of $9000, their expenditures toward benevolent projects was
merely one-sixth of what is was from the previous year. Not only that, but the
amount spent on meals and entertainment was 2.5 times higher than the previous
year, and when compared to the scrawny budget allocated to the “MERCY projects;
the amount spent for their meals and entertainment was more than double of what
they spent on benevolent projects. It’s as if they have stopped to even pretend
that they are a benevolent organization.
